BY HON. GEORGE H. WHITE Member of Congress from North Carolina [Note 28: Extracts from a speech delivered in the House of Representatives, January 29, 1901.] Mr. Chairman: I want t...
BY ROBERT E. JONES, LL. D. Editor Southwestern Christian Advocate, New Orleans, La. [Note 49: Extracts from Commencement address delivered at Tuskegee Institute, May 29, 1913.] I h...
BY REV. HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET, who at the time of the delivery of this speech was in charge of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D. C.,...
BY FANNY JACKSON COPPIN FANNY MIRIAM JACKSON COPPIN, the first Negro woman in America to graduate from college--Oberlin, 1865. From 1837 to 1902, teacher and principal of the Insti...
BY J. MILTON WALDRON, S. T. D. J. MILTON WALDRON, D.D., of Washington, D. C. Noted as having erected and operated the first Institutional Church among Negroes in America in Jackson...
BY JAMES L. CURTIS, of New York [Note 37: Speech delivered on the Centenary of his birth, February 12, 1909.] Since the curtain rang down on the tragedy of Calvary, consummating th...
BY ALEXANDER WALTERS, D. D., Bishop of A. M. E. Zion Church [Note 38: Extract from address given at Carnegie Hall, New York, February 12, 1909.] The distinguished person whom we pa...
BY PINKNEY BENTON STEWART PINCHBACK PINKNEY BENTON STEWART PINCHBACK is one of the most interesting and picturesque figures in the race. A staunch fighter in the Reconstruction per...
BY HON. ARCHIBALD H. GRIMKE [Note 39: Delivered, in appreciation of his service on behalf of the members of Companies A, B and C, 25th Infantry, March 6th, 1909, at Metropolitan A....
The following public tribute was paid to his father by the younger Dumas on the occasion of taking his seat in the French Academy (February 11, 1875). [Note 10: From "The Life of A...
BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, A. M., LL.D. [Note 23: An address by Booker T. Washington, A. M., delivered on the occasion of the unveiling of the Robert Gould Shaw Monument, Boston, Mas...
BY JOHN MERCER LANGSTON [Note 11: Philadelphia, Wednesday, April 14, 1875.] Ladies and Gentlemen: The history of this Association, owing to its objects and achievements, sweep in a...
BY MRS. FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER was a distinguished anti-slavery lecturer, writer and poet, born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1825, of free parents....
BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, A. M. LL.D. of Tuskegee Institute [Note 21: Atlanta, Georgia, September 18, 1895.] Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Board of Directors, and Citizens: One...
BY WILLIAM H. LEWIS Assistant Attorney-General of the United States [Note 46: Boston, Massachusetts, Wednesday, February 12, 1913.] Mr. Speaker and Members of the House of Represen...
BY W. J. GAINES, D. D. Bishop of the A.M.E. Church in Georgia [Note 31: From "The Negro and the White Man," 1897.] Providence, in wisdom, has decreed that the lot of the Negro shou...
BY JOSEPHINE ST. PIERRE RUFFIN, of Boston, Mass. Founder of the National Association of Negro Women [Note 19: June, 1889.] Ladies of the Georgia Educational League: The telegram wh...
BY HON. JOHN R. LYNCH [Note 9: A speech delivered in the House of Representatives, February 3, 1875.] The House having under consideration the civil-rights bill, Mr. Lynch said: Mr...
BY GEORGE L. RUFFIN GEORGE L. RUFFIN (1834-1885) the first Negro judge to be appointed in Massachusetts, graduated in Law from Harvard, 1869. He served in the legislature of Massac...
BY KELLY MILLER [Note 48: Reprinted from Kelly Miller's Monographic Magazine, April, 1913.] We must keep clearly in mind the proposition that the educational process is always unde...
BY THE REV. ERNEST LYON, D.D., LL.D. [Note 50: An address delivered upon the invitation of the citizens of Brownsville, Pa., on the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Eman...
BY REV. FRANCIS J. GRIMKE, D. D. I Cor. 16:13. "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong." [Note 40: A discourse delivered in the Fifteenth Street Presbyteri...
BY J. MADISON VANCE, of New Orleans, La. [Note 20: Extract from an address delivered at the Music Hall, Boston, Mass., October 4, 1894, before the Seventh Biennial Meeting of the G...
BY DR. JAMES E. SHEPARD Founder and President of the National Religious Training School at Durham, N. C. [Note 41: An address delivered before the young men of the National Religio...
BY HON. HILARY TEAGUE Senator at Monrovia, Liberia [Note 3: A speech delivered in 1846, on the anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Liberia.] As far back towards the infa...
BY WILLIAM C. JASON, D. D. Principal State College for Colored Students, Dover, Delaware [Note 45: An address delivered before the Wilmington District Epworth League Convention.] "...
BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS [Note 15: Oration delivered by Frederick Douglass on the occasion of the unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument, in memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Lincoln Park,...
BY CHARLES H. LANGSTON CHARLES H. LANGSTON, a native of Ohio, was the first to counsel resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act, and lost no opportunity himself to disobey it. He was f...
BY ROBERT RUSSA MOTON Commandant of Cadets, Hampton Institute, Virginia [Note 42: An address delivered at the Tuskegee Commencement, May, 1912.] Students, Friends: Among the most h...
BY THEOPHILUS G. STEWARD, D. D. Chaplain 25th United States Infantry [Note 34: Delivered before General Conference, Chicago, Ill., 1904.] Reverend Bishops, and Brethren of the Mini...